forrest-dev mailing list archives

At 02:25 3/06/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Bert Van Kets wrote:
>
> > Thanks David.
> > I'm working on the menu and tabs now. The problem I'm having is in
> knowing
> > what file is selected in the sub menu's. Seems the Cocoon site is still
> > having the same problem.
> >
> > Steven, is your "book.xml on steroids" coping with this problem, or need I
> > go further on this?
>
>the idea would be to pass the current request URI as a parameter to the
>book2menu.xsl (nothing special, you get the picture).
I got that running, no prob. but check out some sub menus on
xml.apache.org/cocoon and you will see that no menu entry is "selected"
when you are viewing the content. We need to go deeper to get the sub
menus working correctly.
>Why not move the
>tabs in a separate pipeline, too, with an accompagnying book2tabs.xsl.
That is certainly necessary. I'm working on this. If you take a directory
structure to select the correct tab (I did in my project) you have a
serious limitation on number of directories. The current directory
structure is usable, but can we live with this limitation.
In the docs build the selection will be based on root + community/* selection.
Bert
>Using the steroid stuff, we'd move from book.xml to libre.xml - I'll
>commit a sample of its current configuration this afternoon. We're still
>in the process of deciding where libre should go, since it has a scope
>which is broader then forrest/cocoon - it could be possible we post it at
>SF and include a libre.jar in forrest.
>
> > The Tabs have the same problem. It's not clear to me whether tabs span a
> > sub-directory or a certain number of book.xml files. I'll have to check
> > the archives, unless someone can fill me in here.
> > What's the selection criteria for the tab? The most obvious one is "the
> > user selected it", but that needs to be stored somewhere. Where????
>
>An extra pipeline to start with IMO. I need to run right now, but maybe
>the top level directories in src/documentation/content/xdocs should be
>reflected as tabs... opinions on this?
>
></Steven>